Ousia in Aristotle's Categories
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| Titel: | Ousia in Aristotle's Categories |
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| Autoren: | Francesco Ademollo |
| Verlagsinformationen: | De Gruyter, 2025. |
| Publikationsjahr: | 2025 |
| Schlagwörter: | Categories, being, predication, essence, substance, ousia, attribute, ground, dependence, individuals, universals, hylomorphism, form, truth, change, categorie, essere, predicazione, essenza, sostanza, dipendenza, individui, universali, ilomorfismo, verità, cambiamento |
| Beschreibung: | This article examines the main lines of the doctrine of substance (ousia) advanced in Aristotle’s Categories, ch. 5. I discuss the relation between language and the categories (§ 1); the meaning and applications of the term ousia in Plato and Aristotle (§ 2); the role of “primary”, individual substances as ultimate subjects of predication and their relation to their essential and non-essential attributes (§§ 3–4); the metaphysical status of “secondary”, universal substances (§ 5); the different ways in which a primary and a secondary substance is one (§ 6); the metaphysical primacy of primary substances and the dependence of other entities on them (§ 7); the relation between substances and those among their parts which are themselves substances (§ 8); other characteristics of substance, namely not having a contrary and not admitting of “the more and the less” (§ 9); the relation between substance and change (§ 10). |
| Publikationsart: | Part of book or chapter of book |
| Dateibeschreibung: | application/pdf |
| Sprache: | English |
| Zugangs-URL: | https://hdl.handle.net/2158/1417816 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/WPR/entry/wpr.28297491/html |
| Dokumentencode: | edsair.od.......310..72cf27c9ac52afb815b87658ced68d7c |
| Datenbank: | OpenAIRE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | This article examines the main lines of the doctrine of substance (ousia) advanced in Aristotle’s Categories, ch. 5. I discuss the relation between language and the categories (§ 1); the meaning and applications of the term ousia in Plato and Aristotle (§ 2); the role of “primary”, individual substances as ultimate subjects of predication and their relation to their essential and non-essential attributes (§§ 3–4); the metaphysical status of “secondary”, universal substances (§ 5); the different ways in which a primary and a secondary substance is one (§ 6); the metaphysical primacy of primary substances and the dependence of other entities on them (§ 7); the relation between substances and those among their parts which are themselves substances (§ 8); other characteristics of substance, namely not having a contrary and not admitting of “the more and the less” (§ 9); the relation between substance and change (§ 10). |
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